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This-essay is a7912202.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %CONSENSUS ABOUT FEELINGS 791220 Intelligent people spend a great deal of their limited time out of concern that there be consensus about formal statements regarding reality. They work to achieve agreement about what is real, true, honorable, desirable, virtuous, moral, Godly, legal, objective, accurate, patriotic, realistic, practical, etc. Consensus is so important to them that they will settle for the appearance of consensus at the price of undermining the dialogue by which meaningful consensus might emerge. They are more concerned with formal agreement than with mutual awareness and mutual understanding that grow through uninhibited dialogue of all kinds. Their concerns occasion formal processes which tend toward violence, rather than toward love. Formal concerns tend to be most successful and productive in the area of objective realities. Thus the formalization of education tends to move a culture toward the objectification of reality, and away from realities which do not yield to objectification; e.g., persons, feelings, emotions, and God. A formal culture tends not to affirm, permit, approve, agree with, acknowledge, confirm, encourage or in other ways respond positively toward non-objective realities. A formal culture tends to approach non-objective realities as if they were objective, and use the resulting disappointments as grounds for rejecting the non-objective realities as being unreal. Formal education tends to be dominated by experts who are presumed to embody are important consensus, and are empowered to certify students who become accultured to the consensus which the experts embody. The power to certify tends to become coercive, and helps to motivate students to internalize the conventional consensus, even if it does not "feel" like it will contribute to their integrity. If the experts with the power to certify have enough power and the certification is highly enough desired, then students may exchange their own feelings --- for conventional feelings which are consistent with the consensus---even though doing so violates their personal integrity. The exchange helps to contribute to the augmentation and solidification of the consensus which thus violates the students' integrity. In keeping with the consensus all the enmeshed participants feel good about the reduction of conflict. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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